Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Labeled Cognive Concepts
Compound Cognive Concepts
Basic Cognive Concepts
Basic relaons
Distance Direcon Topology
Fig. 2 The framework of spatio-temporal cognitive concepts builds on the basic relations in space
and time and consists of three levels
(same country)
close to each other in
a short
interval (a
cluster
)
Many detonaons of the same color
Insight
: The detonaons
occurred in spao-
temporal clusters
Narrave
: It is an
iterave tesng process
Many detonaons close to each other
in a short
interval (
intensity
)
A short
distance
A short
interval
Spaal
distance
Temporal
distance
Fig. 3 Insight I is here dissected into the basic concepts distance and interval, the compound
concept intensity, and the labeled concept clusters
words. Thematic information included in the labeled constructs is indicated by
words in italics.
Insight I This insight was the discovery that during a certain time interval in the
animation the detonations occurred in spatio-temporal clusters. It is dissected in
Fig.
3
. The basic relations that this insight builds upon are spatial and temporal
distance. The analyst noticed anomalous spatial and temporal distances between
certain detonations which he categorized as short (in relation to the other distances
in the data). In this case, it happened that the detonations close to each other in
space were also close to each other in time. Hence, as these detonations were quite
numerous, the analyst became aware of an anomalous intensity in space and time.
Further inspection still revealed that these detonations were thematically the same,
i.e., they belonged to the same country, thus creating a cluster. Using knowledge
about, among other concepts, product development, the analyst formed a narrative
